Alpha textBox

[Joeshultheis]

Hello,

I have tried to get a textbox to have an alpha value of 40 and leave the border and text solid. I have repeatedly failed. The code:

textfield._alpha 40

changes everything. I only want to alpha out the textfield background. Anyone?

[blacey777]

I'm very new to actionscript so I could be completely off, but I had a problem getting my text to fade into a dynamic text box. I didn't realize that the text had to be embedded first in order to be effected by _alpha. Maybe you could turn off the embed function and just create a separate instance name for the border???

[Joeshultheis]

Thanks for the reply, I have tried using the embedded font. Here is the code:

Code:
this.createTextField("test1_txt", 1, 20, 20, 80, 60);
test1_txt.background = true;
test1_txt.backgroundColor = 0xFFFFFF;
test1_txt.embedFonts =true;
test1_txt._alpha =40;
test1_txt.text = "here I am....";

The text becomes totally invisible in this attempt. I to am just learning, it is frustrating